A demonstrator stands in a picket in support of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot whose members face prison for a stunt against President Vladimir Putin, in front of the Savior of Spilled Blood Cathedral in St.Petersburg, Russia, Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. A Moscow judge has sentenced each of three members of the provocative punk band Pussy Riot to two years in prison on hooliganism charges following a trial that has drawn international outrage as an emblem of Russia's intolerance to dissent. ( AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

A demonstrator stands in a picket in support of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot whose members face prison for a stunt against President Vladimir Putin, in front of the Savior of Spilled Blood Cathedral in St.Petersburg, Russia, Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. A Moscow judge has sentenced each of three members of the provocative punk band Pussy Riot to two years in prison on hooliganism charges following a trial that has drawn international outrage as an emblem of Russia's intolerance to dissent. ( AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Russian punk band members jailed

Russia's parliament on Wednesday approved an amnesty which lawyers said would free two jailed members of punk band Pussy Riot and enable 30 people arrested in a Greenpeace protest against Arctic oil drilling avoid trial. (Reuters)